Professional Development

Upcoming Fall 2015 workshops

In Spring of 2015, the Professional Development Committee sent
targeted surveys to Faculty and Staff. Question asked: What SLO and ASSESSMENT topicswould be of interest to you for professionaldevelopment opportunities?

The most requested topics were:

Effectively using different types of assessments, e.g.
embedded assignments, pre/post tests, portfolios, surveys, and using
rubrics

Measuring the affective outcomes and what to learn
from it

Portfolios—assessment that is good for the student!

How to leverage technology to assess student outcomes

In response to these requests the following workshops for Fall 2015
are being designed:

Data Analysis Series

Interpreting disaggregated data - How to understand it and what to
do about it.

For the first time, many units will be looking at disaggregated
assessment data with an eye toward analyzing achievement gaps across
different student groups. In this workshop, CCSF Research Analyst Dr.
Laura Lara-Brady will discuss current data collected on how our
students, especially under-prepared students, perform at CCSF and
offer suggestions for how to interpret the data collected last Spring
semester. Topics will include:

How do I interpret disaggregated assessment data?

Do I have enough data to form valid conclusions?

What are some of the various methods for detecting achievement gaps?

What are proven support strategies (improvements) at CCSF that
boost student success?

Workshop offered three times this semester on:

Tuesday, September 22: 4-5 PM,

Monday October 5: 1-2:30

Wednesday October 14: 3-4:30

Boosting Outcomes: Assessment Tool Series

Using various assessment tools, including surveys, focus groups,
and rubrics to richly improve student interaction.

"Using Student Voices: How focus groups, interviews, and
student surveys can help you close the loop" on Tuesday September 15 from 4-5:30 pm

"Using Rubrics to Teach and Assess" on Thursday October 22 from 3:00-4:30 pm

You filled out that professional development survey and we listened!
Join fellow faculty members as they share how technology has eased
evaluation of student learning outcomes and improved outcome
attainment. Chemistry Chair Roger King will demonstrate ExamView,
which is a test writing and scoring program that easily produces
disaggregated student results. With ExamView it is a simple task to
link regular classroom exams, quizzes, lab report, etc to specific
SLOs, and summarize individual student results at the end of the
semester.

Also, iClickers are used by faculty for both formative and summative
assessment of student learning. Wanna see if the students are on
track? Want to easily assess an outcomes without scantrons and battles
with broken copiers? Sheri Miraglia, from Biology, will share her
experiences using iClickers, both the device and app. Find out how you
can check out iClickers for your classroom and use them
effectively.

Finally, all faculty can enhance teaching and learning and ease
assessment reporting burdens by using key components of Insight. Ed
Tech Chair Cynthia Dewar will demonstrate the possibilities.

Not sure what’s going on? Asking yourself, “When and where do I
report data for my CRNs, Courses, Programs, and Service Units?”

Thinking, “I heard I have to enter data for every student, but I
don’t understand how that’s done?”

If you are confused, it’s completely understandable. The Standards
concerning assessment have many moving parts. Join the Accreditation
Steering Committee for a forum on SLOs and the 2014 ACCJC
Accreditation Standards. The focus will be primarily on the
requirement for disaggregated student outcome data but will cover the following:

1. Why new ACCJC Standards require student level data

2. The kinds of analysis and details are needed for
course/program/unit improvements.

3. Timeline, deadlines, and requirements over the next three semesters

4. Where to locate resources so you can successfully navigate
CurricUNET (scheduled to go live for assessment reporting on April 15th).

Bring your questions to the forum. There will be lots of time for Q
& A.

Past Workshops

Work shops sessions:

SLO BASICS: This SHORT COURSE teaches effective design of SLOs
& PSLOs, how to assess, and use data to make meaningful change and
report results by the next deadline.

SLOs -- refining them, assessing them, analyzing data,
considering course or program improvements, and reporting those both
in the Aug 31/Jan 31 reports as well as in the annual program review
documents.

Program Review -- Linking SLOs to program impacts, resource
requests, and improvements

Course Outlines -- Updating them to ensure currency, and
getting them through the Curriculum Committee

Department/Program web pages -- Updating them to ensure
currency and making them usable by your faculty, staff, and
students

Making Assessments Authentic -- bring your assessments
and work with others to refine and improve them, so they can provide
more useful data in a sustainable way with existing resources

Developing Video resources -- a review of a variety of
video-making tools available for developing additional resources for
training, classroom, and more. Tools reviewed will include Jing,
Camtasia Studio, YouTube, PowerPoint and more

A
survey of survey tools -- what's out there? -- A review of tools
such as Google Forms, Moodle, Turnitin, Survey Monkey, Scantrons,
Formsite.com, and more

Using Standardized Forms to
Communicate Results -- a review of online CCSF forms and
department-specific and customized forms used across the college to
aid coordination

Making Outcomes Valuable Workshop
-- bring your outcomes and work with others to refine and improve
them, so they can better guide your service, course, or program

Coordinating course SLOs across multiple instructors

Assessing Programs -- take II -- what we can learn from CTE
departments